Started smelling like rotten eggs the electric braking system came on

MILAH15

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2016 DODGE DART
90,000 MILES

My car started smelling like rotten eggs the electric braking system came on. Then when I got home my car was smoking and liquid was coming from somewhere. I found a black top from something laying on my battery. Now my car won’t start.

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 AT 9:59 AM

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KASEKENNY

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Hi Milah,

Did you just have a service done to the vehicle like an oil change? Can you identify the liquid? Is it oil? Can you take a picture of the black top that you found on the battery and post it to this site?

Let me know these questions and I am sure we will figure something out.

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Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 AT 11:47 AM

MILAH15

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I got a oil change like three weeks ago. The liquid looked like water no it’s not oil.

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Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 AT 2:14 PM

KASEKENNY

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That doesn’t look like a cap that goes on this engine or at least I don’t recognize it. So that means we need to find where all the water came from. Sounds like the engine overheated so we need to find out why.

If it doesn’t start then we need to start with the basics. An engine needs compression fuel and ignition to run. I suspect you have no compression.

I would suggest running a compression test and sending me the numbers and we can go from there.

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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 AT 6:33 AM